What's on Your Bookshelf?
“What’s On Your Bookshelf” is a personal and professional growth podcast exploring the intersections of passion, potential, and purpose - featuring multi-certified coach and leadership development consultant Denise R. Russo alongside Sam Powell, Zach Elliott, Tom Schweizer, Dennis LaRue, and Michelle King.
Podcasting since 2023 • 142 episodes
What's on Your Bookshelf?
Latest Episodes
SP6 Special Edition Agile Brain: Climbing The Pyramid Of Human Needs
We map a four-sided pyramid of human needs—self, social, material, spiritual—and explore how foundations enable higher aims like purpose and transcendence. Research, culture, and real stories show why ethics, community, and conscious reflection...
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Episode 6
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49:45
SP5 Special Edition Agile Brain: Justice, Ethics, And The Search For Meaning
We trace how justice, ethics, and transcendence shape a meaningful life and why chasing happiness fails while purpose endures. JD Pincus shares research, history, and a practical tool to surface unmet needs and align action with values....
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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59:31
SP4 Special Edition Agile Brain: Lonely Hearts, Social Needs
We explore why inclusion, connection, and recognition are the social motives that make work and life feel meaningful, and how loneliness quietly harms health, teams, and trust. Stories from reality TV to school lunchrooms reveal why sincere car...
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Episode 4
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49:46
SP3 Special Edition Agile Brain:Autonomy To Flow
We explore how autonomy enables immersion and why true success is a byproduct of meeting core emotional needs, not a shortcut to status. Stories of lottery winners, creatives, athletes, and leaders reveal why skipping foundations backfires and ...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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45:24
SP2 Special Edition Agile Brain: Self, Safety, And The Road To Potential
We explore how psychological safety enables authenticity, and how authenticity unlocks potential. JD Pincus connects fear, narcissism, imposter syndrome, and conspiracy thinking to a broader model of self, social, material, and spiritual domain...
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Episode 2
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45:48